"If you have to be this promotional to drive sales when you have captive traffic in the mall, what happens in January and February?" Apparel stores, which were slashing prices as the month went on, fared the best as a sector, with sales at stores open at least a year increasing 7.2 percent.
Manufacturing industries as a dominant sector at industrial sector have been comprised of 22 subsectors.
As Brian Belski, a sector strategist at Merrill Lynch, says, "When growth is scarce, it becomes more valuable".
For Howard, getting the senior talent right is critical: "We, as a sector, are not very good at sacking people.
The biggest difficulty I experienced arose because, as a sector, we're not good at clearly defining job roles.
"As a sector, we will be looking at whether the one-to-one teaching model, which has been the model in the music world for years and years, can continue," she said, stressing that such personal tuition has long been "a very important part of being a musician".
As a sector, I think we're poor at sharing what works, and useful information is often difficult to find.
Waterhouse picked up a good reputation as a sector partner during his three years at 3i, but was left somewhat high and dry after they shut down their venture arm.
They defined the region of interest as an area of a sector originating at the optic disc centre by an angle of 30° above and below the line between the optic disc centre and the centre of the retinal image disc.
In a bleak assessment of the future of vital services that support millions of people, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) voiced alarm that the care sector as a whole is "at risk".
